Practical Applications of Enzymology
Enzymes play a crucial role in our daily life. Our entire metabolic systems are bound with these enzymes. It also has applications in industrial fields. It helps in so many industrially important chemical reactions such as enzyme catalysis. And enzymes are used in medical field for making so many important medicines like antibiotics. Fermentation process using enzyme is an important thing in alcoholic beverages.
In food and digestion
Enzymes allow multiple chemical reactions that occurring in any second in the body of animals and plants. The enzymes allow the transformation of food into energy and facilitate variety of other important biological functions.
Human enzymes meet one of the three fundamental functions. The largest of every types of enzymes, sometimes called metabolic enzymes, it helps in so many basic body processes, from breathing to thought. Some of this enzymes are dedicated to the maintenance of immune system , they protects from the diseases and others helps to control the effect of toxins like tobacco smoke transforming them into a form , body will eject it more easily.
A second category of enzymes is in diet and it consist enzymes in raw foods that help in …show more content…
And it is a process it involves enzymes, on it a compound which is rich in energy, will breakdown into simpler substances. The most important and familiar fermentation is the conversion of sugar and starch to alcohol by using enzymes of yeast. This process sometimes also known as alcoholic fermentation or ethanolic fermentation. Through fermentation starch will convert to simple sugars, like sucrose and glucose. Through some complex reactions these sugars will converts to ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. There are so many enzymes participates in this reactions. For example zymase, which is present in yeast. Also it is used to make other food items such as bread and